All Episodes

Malik Lakoubay from Dark Matter Labs on financing civic infrastructure and democratic innovation

Olivier Schulbaum on democracy after the platform and the struggle for democratic infrastructures

Ryan Koch from the Civic Tech Chat podcast on civic innovation and effective use of AI

Gianluca Misuraca from Inspiring Futures on AI in the public sector

Alvaro Oleart on the instrumentalisation of EU participation processes & limits of AI for democracy

Alberto Fernandez Gibaja from International IDEA on Technology and Democracy

Simon Horton on Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and How AI Can Help End War

Anthony Zacharzewski from Democratic Society on democratic infrastructure, participation and power

Alice Casiraghi on designing regenerative systems, public services, and democratic participation

Paolo Spada on participatory budgeting, citizen assemblies, and scaling democratic innovation

Antoine Vergne from Missions Publiques on scaling deliberative decision-making and random selection

Paul Zeitz about permanent citizens' assemblies in the US and using technology to scale it

Ben Nelson on the Minerva Project, reforming higher education and its role for democracy

Cecile Green & Seth Frey on the Commoning Standard and the role of self-governance for democracy

Sylvain Le Bon from Startin'blox about Data Spaces, Democracy and Interoperability

Jorge Lagarto about LabX and human centric design in the public sector

Wietse van Ransbeeck about Go Vocal and how to integrate participation into governance

Marcello Coppa on the Feel Community, the Govtech Forum and accelerating innovation

Stefaan Verhulst about governance, decision-making and how to ask good questions

Yuting Jiang on the Agora Citizen Network, Polis and bridging-based algorithms

Hélène Landemore about deliberative democracy, citizens' assemblies and the future of democracy

Nathan Schneider on protocols, modular politics and the governance of online communities

Matt Stempeck on the Civic Tech Field Guide and why projects succeed or fail

Samuel Vance-Law on how digital transformation gives space to governance innovation

Cross-podcast dialogue on governance, democracy, and institutional innovation

Simone Maria Parazzoli about the Agentic State and how algorithms can transform governments

Marco Cappato & Francesco Vecchi discuss how AI can empower democracy

Vir Sanghavi about Tilt.vote and how it can improve debates in democracies

Bruce Schneier on democracy in the context of cryptography, security, e-voting, AI, power and trust

Tiago Peixoto about the role of collective action in reforming democratic systems

Jonathan Moskovic about the future of deliberative citizen participation

Carol Romero & Andrés Pereira de Lucena about Decidim, and why technology is political

Alex Blaga from Trollwall about using AI to combat toxic content and misinformation on social media

Sonia Bussu about using arts to bring emotions in democratic settings

Graham Wetherall-Grujić of the Innovation in Politics Institute about improving political discourse

Richard Bartlett about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits

Martín Carcasson about the Center for Public Deliberation and overcoming toxic polarization

Tomas Rakos about Participation Factory and why fetishising a single method or tool is a bad idea

Margo Loor about CitizenOS, an open-source, community-based, grassroots decision-making platform

Daniel Mackisack on setting ambitious political goals and testing new forms of governance in space

Guido Saracco about Tecnosofia and the importance of combining humanism and technology in education

Andrew Gray about Suffrago and how to use the wisdom of people's voices for politics

Magnus Strobel about the Future of Civic Engagement: Inside the Nexus Politics Platform

Robert Bjarnason about the Citizens Foundation and how technology supports participatory democracy

Evelien Nieuwenburg about Dembrane ECHO and mirroring insights from large groups' conversations

Guillaume Saunier & Lucien Langton about how Voca helps to distribute the participatory tool Decidim

Gianluca Sgueo about gamification and how it has potential to improve participation in democracies

Stephen Boucher about Dreamocracy and how collective creativity solves complex problems in society

Michihito Matsuda about the AI Mayor project and why we need to overcome old democratic systems

Oliver Klingefjord about the Meaning Alignment Institute and how to bring up wisdom in a collective

Gareth Farry works with Amnesty international on human rights advocacy using blockchain technology

Tate Berenbaum about Arweave and how a blockchain-based permanent storage impacts governance

Bjørn Bedsted about Democracy X, local transitions and global participation

Josef Lentsch about the Political Tech Summit and huge potential in digitally assisted democracy

Lukas Salecker about deliberAIde and why generative AI makes a difference in deliberative democracy

Geert Lovink about Democracy and the Internet. Do internet technologies help or harm?

Marcin Woźniak about Swarmcheck and Argument Mapping: How democratic discourse can be more rational

Artem Zhiganov, Harmonica: How to improve collective sense-making with GenAI

Valentin Chaput about Open Source Politics. A decade of digital tools & the next generation

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